Bishop, Calif., is a hot spot for the lively new sport of
bouldering, but some fear that the new generation of rock-climbers
is short on environmental ethics, treating nature as little more
than an outdoor climbing gym

Poor but coal-rich Delta County, Colo., made history when
its county commissioners, responding to a determined citizens'
movement, voted to deny four coalbed methane test wells and attach
conditions to the drilling of a fifth.

A draft plan by Moffat County, Colo., commissioners to
turn over control of 1.7 million acres of federal land to local
trustees draws the ire of environmentalist Jon Marvel of the
Western Watersheds Project.